West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-05-12

me, IN the TIM shop, by the forge, in the fac
tory, IN the counting room and he will not
find her, and no will 10 dissatisfied. A man
who gN N himself up 90 the ndiscriminate
reading Of novels will be nervcess, inane and
anuisance. He will be fit neither for the store
nor the shop, nor the field A woman who
gives herself up to tho indiscrim;nato
reading OF novels will be untitled
for the duties Of wife, mother sister daugh-
ter. There she is, hair dishovcled, counten-
nnce vacant, checks pale, hands trembling
bursting into tears at midnight over tho fnta
OF some unfortunate lover; in the day. titne.
when she ought 60 be busy staring by the
halt t-hour at nothing biting her finger nails
INTO the quick. The carpet that was plain
before, viii loo palmer after having wandered
through romance all night long In tcsSelated
nails OF castles. Aud your industrious com
ramon wiz be moro unattractivc than ever,
now that you have walked I'm the romance
through parks with plumed princcSses, or
lounged in tho arbor with the polished deSpe-
RADIO Oh, those confirmed novel rcadersl
lhey are unhtted for this life which is n trV-
mendouS discipline. They know not how 10
go through the furnaces of trial through
winch they must pass, aud they arc untitled
Tor world whore everything we gain we
hauStive work
Again: abstain from all those books which.
while they have some good things about them
have also an admiXture OF evil You hRyS
read books that had two clements in thom-
the good and the bad Which stuck 10 yout
| Tho bad The heart OF most people is like A
sieve, which let's the small particles OF gold
tall through, but keeps the great cinders
| Oncc IN while there Is n mind like n load
stone, which, plunged amid steel md brass
! hlings, gathers up the steel and repols the
brass But IL is generally Just the opposite
| III you attempt TO plunge through n hedge OF
burrs TO get one blackberry YOU win get
more buriS than blnCklbprrieS You cannot
afford 20 read bad book however GOOD Won
are. You say: The influence is insignin-
cant" tell You that the scratch OF a pin
mas sometimes produced the lock jaw Alas, IL
through curiosity, as many do, YOU pry into an
evil book, your curiosity Is as dangerous ms
that OF the man who would take "A torch into
gunpowder mill merely TO SEQ whether il
! wonli blow up or not In menngorie iD
New York, n man put his arm through the
| bars OF a black lcopard's cage The animals
| hide looked 80 sleek, and bright and beautiful
lie just strokcd IL once The monster seized
hun, and lac drew forth hand torn, and
manged, and bleeding q, touch not evil oven
with the faintest stroke Though it may
bc glossy and beautiful. touch il not lest YOU
pun iorth your soul torn and bleeding under
the clutch Of the black leopard But YOU
say, how can | find out whether a book is
good or bad without reading itN There is
always something suspicious about bad
book. / never knew an exception something
suspicious In the index or style of illustration.
This venOmous reptile almost always carries n
warning rattle
Again: | charge you 10 stand Off from nll
those books which corrupt tho imagination
ana iniiame the passions | do not refer now
10 That KIND of n book which tho villain has
under his coat waiting for the school 10 get
out, and then, looking both ways 10 see that
shere IS no policeman around the block, offers
the hook TO your son on his way home. do
not speak OF that kind OF literature but that
which evadcs the law and comes out in polished
sty yle,nnd with acute plot sounds the tocSin that
rouses up all the baser passions OF the soul
To-day under the nostrils of this land, there
Is n .fctid, rocking, unwaShed literature
pnnuph a all ba mi Of f,tIh 10
virtue, and smite your sons and daughters as
with the wing OF "A destroying angel, and IL is
time that tho ministers OF the Gospel blew
the trumpet and rallied the forces Of right
eousneSs, all armed 10 tho teeth in this great
battle against deprnvcd literature.
Again: abstain from those books which hro
apoogetic Of crime. IL is n sad thing that
Some of the best and most beautiful book
bindery, and some of tho finest rhetoric, have
been brought to make sin attractive. NiCo is
horrible thing any how. It'll born in shame,
and n dies bowling in the darkness In this
world 10 is scOurgcd with a whip OF SCORPIONS
but afterwards the thundcrs Of Gods wrath
pursue II across a boundlcss desert, beating il
with ruin and woe. When you como 10 paint
carnality, do not paint IL ms looking from be
hind embroidered curtains or through lattice
81 royal seraglio, but rs writhing in tho
Agonies OF n city hospital
Curved be the books hat try TO make inn
purity decent, and crime attractive. and
hypocrisy noble! Cursed be the books that
make the brain 81 tho young people whirl
with villninyl Ye authors who write them,
ye publishers who print them, yo booksellers
who'd stribue them shall be cut 20 pieces N
not 10y an aroused community, then at last
10y the hail Of Divine vengeance, which shall
sweep 20 the lowest pit Of perdtiOn all ye
murdcrers Of souls. tell you, though you
may escape in this world, you will be
| ground at last under the hoOf OF eternal
calamities, aud you will be chained 10 the
rock, and you Will have the vulturcs Of dc
spair clawing at your soul, and those whom
| you have destroyed will como around 10 tor
| ment you, and 10 pour hotter Goals Of fury
upon your head, and rejoice ctcrnaly i'm tho
| Outcry NJ your pain and the howl Of your
| damnatiOn. "Gol shall wound the hairy scalp
| OF him that gOeth ON IN his trespasscs"
Tho clock strikes midnight a fair form
bonds over romance The eyes flash fire
The breath is quick and irregular Occasion
/ ally the cO.Or dashcs into the check, md then
! dies out. The hands trcmble os though a
| guardian spirit we're trying 10 shake the
| deadly book out OF the grasp Hot tears fall
| She laughs with n shrill voice that drops dead
/ a. its own sound The sweat on her brow is
| the spray dashed up from the river of death
The clock strikes -four, and the rosy dawn
| soon after begins TO look through the lattice
| upon the pale form that looks like n d tained
spectre Of the night Soon. in n madhOuse
she viii mistake her rng.ete for curling ser.
pents, and thrust her white hani through the
bars Of the prison and mite her head, rub
| bing II back as though ~ push the scalp from
the slur, shrienng.' INV brain nv 6rninrn
| Oh. stand on from that Why will you 20
sounding your way amid the reefs and warn
| ing huOys when there is such "a vast ocean in
which you may voyage nll sail sctf
There is ono other thing / shall say This
morning before ] leave you, whether yOu
want 20 hear " or not. That is, that I con
slider the lasciyiOus pictorial literature Of the
day es most tremendous for ruin There ia no
ono who can like good pictures better than /
do. Tho quickest and most condensed way
| Of imprcssIng the public mind is bv picture
What the painter docs by his brush for "a few
fayorite8, the ongraver does by his knife
for the million. What the author accomp-
fishes by hfty pages, tho artist does by n
fash. The best part Of n painting that costs
ton thousand dollars you may buy for ten
cents. Fine paintings belong 90 the aristo-
crazy of art EngrGvinps belong ~ tho
democracy n art You do well ~ gather
good pictures in your homes Spread them
/ before your children, after tho tea-hOur is
past, and the evening circle is gathered.
/ Throw them ON tho iuvalids couch Strew
them through Tho rail-train ~ cheer the trav-
elcr on his Journey Tack them on tho wall
Of the uurscrY Guther them boz albums and
portfolios God fpocd the good pictures on
| their way with ministries Of knowledge and
mercy
But what shall Say of tho prostitution Of
| This art 10 purposes N iniquity These death
warrants ~ Tho soul are at every street corr
ner. They unite tho vision of the young man
with pollution. Many n young man buying q
copy has bought his eternal discomiiture